Appropriate Ratings
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Many shows have profanity, sexuality, and violence in them, which is screwing the vision of today�s generation of kids. Kids at a young age believe what they see on tv, there for sex, violence, and profanity seem as if they are a normal behavior that they can preform. Violence, more so than the others, is put into kids� shows, such as cartoons. These cartoons teach the kids that it is normal in society to perform violent acts. This also leads to bullying in school when these kids are imitating their favorite ninja turtle or Pokemon by beating up on the weaker kids at school. A study was done with a younger audience and �many thought violence was comic and had few consequences.� Violent TV shows a teaching their youth audience that violence is a common behavior among everyone, especially their heroes. This causes to acts of violence at school which results in bullying. Violence in children's� shows are teaching kids that violence is common in everyday behavior.
Parents and guardians make naive decisions that influence their kid�s way of thinking. Before every show is aired that specific show is required to show the rating for 15 seconds before it starts. That�s not a very long time to inform the audience of the rating. With that being said it might not always be the adult�s fault but the program�s fault. The parent should still be paying close attention what their kids are watching at a young age. Now TVs have something called a V-chip which is the technical term for parental guidance. The V-chip allows the parents to regulate and block certain channels and shows with specific ratings. This give parents no excuse for letting their kids watching inappropriate shows while they are gone. It�s the parents� responsibility to apply the parental guidance to the TV setting to protect their children from mature material.
Some might think the ratings aren't as harshly enforced nor rated as they should be. There are seven different different TV ratings and four of them are directed for kids. All of the ratings are meant for kids seven and older. The average kid aged 2-11 watches four hours of TV a day. That means over half of the kids are watching TV that is not appropriate for them. These TV shows that are supposedly appropriate for 7-year olds contain "mild fantasy violence or comedic violence that may scare younger kids�(TV-Y), �fantasy violence may be more intense in these programs than others in the TV-Y7 rating�(TV-Y7), and �little to no violence, sexual dialogue
or content, or strong language�(TV-G). These ratings should not be including violence in the rating if they are targeted for 7 year olds.
In todays world there is a lot more inappropriate information available to a younger audience and not enough restrictions put on this information. Parents now have the ability to block certain shows on TV and prevent inappropriate information from reaching their kids minds at too young of an age. The ratings can also deceive the parents because violence is now in the majority of shows and movies. This violence is tampering with the minds of our youth causing bullying in schools. With everyone's help we can sensor what our kids see on TV and prevent inappropriate behavior in the future.
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Conclusion, update May 30 2014
During my experience writing my first blog I learned how interesting it can be to do research on a topic that interested me and share my results with the wold. I really enjoyed watching the constant increases of people reading my blog for reference for the topic I chose. It really inspired me to publish more research or work that I do because with out resources such as blogs and other website publish their work, I would not be able to access the information needed to find out more information for school or personal interest. Also the comments I received on my blog gave me even more scenarios that I did not think of and made me reconsider my point of view of the side that I took in the argument that I gave. In the end I remained on the side that I took but maybe in the future someone will persuade me to completely change my point of view on something by giving me a new scenario that a may not think of. This would increase my knowledge of on a topic that I enjoy or improve my argument in a paper for school. I really enjoyed this blog project because I found much more information on a topic that was familiar to me but also had a lot of unexplored information that I found to be very fascinating. I'm very excited for this to be my first true publicly published piece that can be I can be traced back to.
Conclusion, update May 30 2014
During my experience writing my first blog I learned how interesting it can be to do research on a topic that interested me and share my results with the wold. I really enjoyed watching the constant increases of people reading my blog for reference for the topic I chose. It really inspired me to publish more research or work that I do because with out resources such as blogs and other website publish their work, I would not be able to access the information needed to find out more information for school or personal interest. Also the comments I received on my blog gave me even more scenarios that I did not think of and made me reconsider my point of view of the side that I took in the argument that I gave. In the end I remained on the side that I took but maybe in the future someone will persuade me to completely change my point of view on something by giving me a new scenario that a may not think of. This would increase my knowledge of on a topic that I enjoy or improve my argument in a paper for school. I really enjoyed this blog project because I found much more information on a topic that was familiar to me but also had a lot of unexplored information that I found to be very fascinating. I'm very excited for this to be my first true publicly published piece that can be I can be traced back to.
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